Grunwick 40
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Quote:Grunwick and Lucas 40 Years On: Union Rights, Workers' ControlScreening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan, with discussion and brief talks by Kerria Box (Grunwick 40) and Solfed.22nd July 7pm at LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 (nearest tubes Whitechapel, Aldgate East.)Organised by Breaking the Frame, Grunwick 40 and North London Solidarity Federation. FREE/donation.1976 was a high tide of workers’ struggle and the year it all began to change. Giving the lie to racist and sexist myths that Asian women were submissive and would work for a pittance, workers at the Grunwick plant in Willesden rallied the left behind their struggle for the right to join the union. At the Lucas Aerospace arms company, the Shops Stewards’ Combine Committee took the fight to the bosses, with their workers’ Alternative Plan for socially useful production.In 2016 we are still facing the fiction of ‘foreigners taking our jobs’. In the face of climate change and militarism, we again need industrial conversion, from fossil fuels and Trident to renewables, and to stop the bosses replacing our jobs with robots. Join us for 2 films and discussion, showing how workers’ rights and ideas are crucial to facing those challenges.Refreshments will be available for a donation. Contact info@breakingtheframe.org.uk for more information. Venue is wheelchair accessible.
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http://www.solfed.org.uk/local/north-london
https://www.facebook.com/Grunwick40/ My word, how time flies. I well remember going up to Grunwick on successive days handing out party leaflets and selling the occasional Standard. Had a brief confontation one morning with Joan Lestor, erstwhile SPGBer but by then a turncoat Labour MP…
jondwhite wrote:Wasn't there some disagreement over the coverage of Grunwick in the Standard at the time?More than likely. The 70's were a tumultuous period for the party with expulsions and accusations of reformism being levelled almost on a daily basis. The beginning of the end of that era occurred with the 'departure' of some of the main protagonists from the Executive Committee at the close of 1977. Democracy had prevailed. One of those EC members left the party shortly afterwards…
The Lucas Plan was something that i think Robbo and others would cite as evidence that there is a process of revolution that commences before the actual establishment of socialism, where workers re-design the content and purpose of their industries. http://libcom.org/history/articles/lucas-aerospace-fightWell worth a read.
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